The Serpent on the Crown Contributor(s): Peters, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 006059179X ISBN-13: 9780060591793 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Archaeologist Amelia Peabody returns in the "New York Times" Bestseller--a tale as exciting, mysterious, and powerful as ancient Egypt. Available in this premium "slim-trim" edition. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Amelia Peabody |
Physical Information: 1.25" H x 4.21" W x 7.54" (0.65 lbs) 512 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Cultural Region - North Africa - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - East Africa |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The New York Times bestselling “Grande Dame of historical mystery” (Washington Post) returns with another thrilling tale of mystery, As the l921-22 season begins, the Emersons are enjoying a busy period of excavation in Egypt, when they hear a lurid description of a man's mysterious death. His widow is convinced he died of a curse, and implores the Emersons to return the “deadly” little statue that killed him to the tomb from which it was stolen--before it adds her to its list of victims. Clearly, it would be a serious error for the Emersons to start chasing tomb robbers, just when they have finally received permission to return to the Valley of the Kings, from which they were barred several years earlier. But the family soon realizes that the curse may be more real than they ever imagined....and they may be the next victims. |
Contributor Bio(s): Peters, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Peters earned her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago's famed Oriental Institute. During her fifty-year career, she wrote more than seventy novels and three nonfiction books on Egypt. She received numerous writing awards and, in 2012, was given the first Amelia Peabody Award, created in her honor. She died in 2013, leaving a partially completed manuscript of The Painted Queen. |